Pathology labs · Pay per click advertising
Pay for the blood-test-at-home search, not for people hunting the cheapest panel.
Pay per click advertising for a pathology lab means paying Google to appear when someone searches for a test, a package or a home collection that your phlebotomists can take. GullySales picks the searches worth bidding on, blocks the ones that never become samples and counts a collected sample, not a click.
A 90-minute audit call and a written, scored report. Turnaround, reporting and term are agreed in writing after the audit.
What pay per click advertising means
Pay per click advertising (PPC) is paying a fee each time someone clicks your advert on Google or another platform. It puts you at the top of a search page immediately, instead of waiting for ranking to build. GullySales sets the targeting, writes the ad text and checks spend daily against enquiries received.
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For pathology labs
Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.
“An ad that lists the whole menu sells nothing”
All tests available competes with every lab and app in the city. An ad for a thyroid profile with home collection in your area competes with a few.
“The call arrives after the phlebotomist has left”
A home collection ad that runs all day sends a call at six in the evening for a slot that closed at noon. The patient books the next lab and the click is paid for.
“Price searches bring the wrong crowd”
People searching for the cheapest blood test or a free camp compare apps on price alone. Most of that spend ends as a phone call that never becomes a sample.
What we do
What we deliver for pathology labs.
Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.
Campaigns split by test group and home collection
Routine panels, check-up packages, fever tests and home collection each run as their own campaign, so money moves to the one that has capacity.
Result: Budget follows the part of the lab that can take samples.
Ad hours set to the phlebotomist's day
Home collection ads switched on while slots remain and a person will answer, agreed with whoever runs the collection roster.
Result: Nobody pays for a call at a desk that is closed.
Negative keyword lists from real search terms
Job, course, kit, normal range, symptom and donation searches added as negatives, with the search terms read again after every change.
Result: Money stops going to people who were never patients.
Landing pages for each test and package
Each ad lands on the page for that test or package, with the preparation, a call button and a WhatsApp link.
Result: The person who searched for HbA1c finds HbA1c, not your home page.
Call tracking to the counter that answered
A tracked number for each campaign, with the front desk marking whether the call became a collected sample, a booked slot or only a price question.
Result: You can tell which campaign filled the collection roster.
A report of spend against samples collected
Spend, calls and collected samples for each campaign, set against the baseline recorded before the ads began.
Result: You know what the advertising is producing at the counter.
How the result is measured
- Cost per click
- Cost per enquiry
- Enquiries from paid search
Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.
Searches to bid on and block
Which pathology searches are worth paying for, and which to keep out.
- A test plus area, such as thyroid test near me
- Bid. The patient holds a prescription and is choosing a lab. Land on the page for that test with the preparation, the collection hours and a call button that rings the front desk.
- Blood test at home, sample collection at home
- Bid while slots remain. The searcher wants a visit, so the page needs the areas covered, a booking route and a person to answer. Switch the ad off when the roster is full.
- Check-up package for parents or senior citizens
- Bid on a package page that lists every test. The buyer is an adult child comparing contents, so the page must make sense without a phone call.
- Cheap, offer, free and lowest price
- Block, or bid low and read the search terms. People shopping on price alone book whichever lab or app is cheapest, and the spend rarely returns as a sample.
- Jobs, DMLT course, sample report and normal range
- Block vacancy, DMLT, course, kit, normal range, sample report, symptom and donation. These come from students, job seekers and people reading a result they already hold.
- Where the click lands, and what counts
- Send each click to the test or package page with a call button and a WhatsApp link. Count an answered call or a booked slot, then whether the sample was collected.
Who it is for
This is written for these pathology labs.
- Neighbourhood labs beside clinics and nursing homes
- Labs inside a hospital or polyclinic
- Multi-centre pathology chains in one city
- Collection centres of a larger reference lab
- Labs that run corporate and school camps
- Pathology labs with their own radiology corner
Not for
It is not the right fit if.
- You want a guaranteed Google ranking or a guaranteed number of leads. Nobody honest can promise either.
- You need enquiries by next week and have nobody to answer them.
- You want posts and reach reported, not enquiries and orders.
How it works
From your first message to the first report.
No open-ended retainer. Every step gives you something in writing.
First
Free audit call
90 minutes with whoever handles your enquiries: how they arrive, how fast they are answered, where they are lost.
After the call
Written, scored report
Six areas scored, fixes ranked by return and cost. If you want our help, the scope, the fee and the reporting come with it, in writing.
Before work starts
Baseline recorded
Enquiries by source, reply time, conversion and cost per order, written down so every later report has an honest comparison.
After the baseline
The first fix goes live
Usually the cheapest one on the report: reply time, a follow-up sequence or the marketing-to-sales handover.
As agreed
Report against the baseline
What moved, what did not, and what changes next, in plain words. How often you get it is set in writing before work starts.
At renewal
Renew on the numbers
The term ends and you decide whether to continue from the results. The length is agreed in writing before anything starts.
How the work runs for pathology labs
- 1
Listen to how calls are handled
The free audit call traces where price calls and bookings come from, who answers and what happens during the morning rush.
- 2
Fix the first minute of the call
One price sheet, agreed answering hours and a log of every enquiry.
- 3
Make the lab findable for the test
Test and package pages, a Business Profile with visible prices and reviews asked for after a smooth collection.
- 4
Put the lab in front of the clinic
A sheet for each reception desk and a follow-up, built with your own adviser's view on what may be offered.
- 5
Report on samples, not activity
A report on enquiries, collections, corporate quotes and repeat patients against the baseline taken before anything changed.
Proof
What happened when owners fixed this.
Real clients, the work we did, and the result as it was recorded. Where no number was recorded, none is claimed.
Chord Road Hospital
- Situation
- Patients who knew the hospital trusted it. Patients who searched for a department or a treatment in the area did not find it.
- What we did
- Website rebuilt around patient needs
- Search visibility
- Social media on a schedule
- Review management
- Result
- Organic traffic increased 60% within six months
- Online appointment bookings increased 40%
- Social following grew 45%, and engagement on it rose 70%
Nanda Arthritis and Rheumatology Center
- Situation
- There was no website, so a patient looking for a rheumatologist had no way to learn about the centre. Enquiries were few, and the ones that arrived came by word of mouth.
- What we did
- A website for patients
- Search work
- Google Business and reviews
- Lead capture and advertising
- Result
- No numbers were recorded for this engagement. The work is described in full in the case study.
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Why us
Why owners pick GullySales over an agency.
Marketing and sales, as one job
Most agencies stop at the enquiry. We also fix what happens after it: the reply, the follow-up, the quote and the CRM.
The person on the first call does the work
No account managers in between. You are never handed to someone you have not met.
A baseline before anything starts
Your numbers are written down on day one, so every later report compares against something honest.
The fee in writing, split three ways
Our time, your media spend and production on separate lines. You always see what goes to us.
No guarantees we cannot keep
The term is agreed in writing and never a default twelve months. We never promise a ranking or a lead count, because nobody controls those.
One office, and we say so
Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru. We work across India by call and WhatsApp and travel when a session needs to be in person.
#257, 3rd floor, Sri Nanjundeshwara Complex, Nagarbhavi 8th Block, Outer Ring Road. How we work.
The offer
Start with a free audit of how you sell.
It is useful on its own, whether or not you hire us.
What you receive
- A 90-minute call with the person who will do the work
- A written, scored report on the six places orders leak
- Every fix ranked by what it returns and what it costs
- The one thing to do first, and why
- An honest line on whether you need outside help at all
- If you do, the scope and the fee in writing
No invoice. No obligation. No sales script.
FAQ
Questions owners ask before they call.
Not here? More answers, or ask on WhatsApp.
A rival lab's ad shows when people type our name. What should we do?
Are call-only ads right for a lab?
Patients ring from the ad to ask where to collect a report. How do we keep that out of the numbers?
A patient clicked the ad but booked on WhatsApp. How do we count it?
Can we pay doctors who send us patients?
Can we publish test prices?
How long is the contract?
How soon will we see results?
Who will actually do the work?
What do you need from us?
From the blog
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